As Someone Learning German, I Know This Pain

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If you get the wrong one just accuse the examiner of being transphobic.
- please no baiting trans folk
- What a transphobic thing to say.
  
  Wow, you must be a joy to spend time with. 🙄
  
  Man... This post going over lots of heads.
  
  Don't bite the bait pls, reporting in this case is best course of action. Thanks
  
  Sorry you're being downvoted, I think you're entirely correct. I hope the other people just don't realize how jokes that are relativising transphobic experiences like that are downplaying the actual issues trans people are facing.
  
  I wish we would live in a world where we could just crack jokes involving trans people like we do with everything else.
  
  itl be definitely be nice when lgbtq doesn't need to be a social movement, or a political opinion, just a normal thing in life.
  
  We can, but we have to work for it. When any group is no longer being systemically discriminated and have equal rights, then they're also valid comedy targets.
  Like with racist jokes. They're fine in very confined groups where everyone agrees that the absurdity of the premise is part of the joke and where nobody will be made to feel unsafe by it. But to a wider audience where people might misunderstand where the joke came from, in what spirit it was told in, it's nok OK. Not only can it make people from the group being targeted feel unsafe, but it'll also embolden actual racists who'll mistake the joke as support of their beliefs.
  It's a trust thing I guess. As soon as trans people can see someone crack a joke about them online and rest assured in the fact that the person telling that joke isn't voting for or otherwise enabling people who wants to take away their rights or straight up hurt them, then it'll be fine.
  This protection, however, should not apply to people who make it their business to hurt or oppress other people, which is why it's always open season on nazis.
  
  My thoughts exactly.
  
  But nobody is downplaying it? Yes Trans people face a lot of issues and they really need to be supported in many ways, but I don't think this joke insinuates any of that.
  
  I do think that comparing a non native speaker using the wrong article with trans people having to fear for their lives sometimes is downplaying it. I don't think that was the intent with the original comment, which is why I also don't appreciate the other person's snappy response. But I do believe those kinds of jokes can subconsciously make people believe things aren't as bad as they actually are.

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